Kotaku: Contests

The Best of Portal 2's Forlorn, Fan-Made Music Videos

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:40:00 EDT

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Portal 2 developer Valve challenged the video making masses to turn the first-person puzzler's original song by The National ("Exile Vilify") into an equally original music video. Valve announced the winner of that contest, which was dominated by one very sad looking sock puppet. More »

Make Portal 2 Music

Joshua Rivera — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:00:00 EDT

If you listened closely, you may already know that Brooklyn band The National recorded a song "Exile Vilify" for Portal 2. And now Valve is holding a music video contest for it. Win and get swag from Valve and the band [http://www.ThinkWithPortals.com] More »

Sign up for the Kotaku Newsletter, Win an iPad

Christopher Mascari — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:30:00 EDT

We're giving away a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad to one lucky newsletter subscriber! Don't subscribe? Enter your email address below to get one great story a day in your inbox. Don't worry, we hate spam as much as you do. More »

Sign up for the Kotaku Newsletter, Win an iPad

Christopher Mascari — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Weta Is Making Halo: Reach ATVs (And You Can Have One)

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:30:00 EDT

Weta Workship, the New Zealand studio that specializes in fantastical concept design and manufacturing, the team responsible for making a drivable Halo Warthog, is making more Halo vehicles. Exactly two Mongoose-style ATVs. And you can win one. More »

City Of Heroes Celebrates Five Years Of Heroism

Mike Fahey — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:00:00 EDT

NCsoft's superhero simulation City of Heroes celebrates its five-year anniversary next week, with contests and events planned to keep the game's super-powered denizens partying Paragon City into the ground. More »

Pepsi Rock Band Contest Is A Reality

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Last month, we first told you about the upcoming Pepsi promotion that would see daily giveaways of Rock Band downloadable tracks, allegedly up to a million tracks. Details on that promotion have gone live. More »

Midnight Club: Los Angeles Is Having A Pizza Party!!

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:40:22 EDT

When one thinks of South Central LA and illegal underground street racing, one also thinks "Pizza!" Logically, Rockstar Games and Pizza Hut have partnered to promote Midnight Club: Los Angeles with the power of pie. More »

Rumor: Pepsi Giving Away 1 Million Rock Band Tracks This Summer

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:30:00 EDT

MTV Games and Pepsi appear to be teaming up for a Rock Band-themed, Pepsi-soaked promotion this Summer, giving away up to 1 million free Rock Band tracks to lucky sugared soft drink swillers. More »

Mountain Dew Slamming Winner's Inboxes With Free Indie Games

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:30:03 EST

Welcome to Check Your E-mail with Kotaku. In today's episode, we recommend that you check your e-mail if you signed up for the "Dew The Download" contest that Spike TV ran this week. More »

New Weekly Game Design Challenges

Maggie Greene — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EDT

For those of you who like game design challenges, GameCareerGuide has started a weekly design challenge: More »

Owen's Xbox: We Have a Winner!

ogood — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:40:00 EDT

"Guess the Date Owen's Xbox Returns" is officially over. Corey Goupil correctly guessed April 7, winning a Rock Band hoodie and some other great schwag. But really, there's only one winner here: Me. I got my Xbox back yesterday, delivered to my office. More »

Five World Records Up For Grabs in Brooklyn

ogood — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Ah, the Guinness Book of World Records. In the 1980s game craze, I remember they started accepting video game submissions, so I rolled the score on Defender on the Atari 2600 (1 million points), snapped a photo and sent it in, either to Guinness or somewhere else. No one called, no one wrote. Glory delayed is glory denied. More »

Weekends Were Made for Nepotism

ogood — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:00:00 EDT

March 17, my Xbox 360 finally showed the Red Ring of Death. March 18, Brian Crecente offered me this job. It was kinda zen, as one door closes, another opens. More »

Win Ten G's In GameStop's Grand Theft Auto IV Contest

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:11 EDT

That Grand Theft Auto IV limited edition package is, unless you're in desperate need of a duffel bag for all your duffeling, a teensy bit overpriced. Fortunately, GameStop is giving away ten-thousand dollars in a GTA IV promotion, so you could be swimming in lockboxes, key chains and other branded tchotchkes if you win. You could also be swimming in airfare, as four winners will fly to New York City for a chance to get that ten large. It's really quite simple, only requiring a text from your mobile phone or the filling out of an online form. No purchase or hooker beatings required! Good luck. More »

Jay is Games Casual Game Competition #5 Is Up

Maggie Greene — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:00:23 EDT

Jay is Games' Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5 is now up with twenty one entries. I always like spending some time with the contest entries when they're finally up; even though there's always an overarching theme (this go around, it's 'upgrade'), the games are usually a pretty diverse and interesting bunch. More »

IndieCade '08 Submissions Now Open

Maggie Greene — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:30:55 EST

IndieCade is a festival of independent games that makes appearances all over the place; this year, they'll be at events in Hangzhou, E3, E for All, PAX, and a couple of other places. And, like their name would imply, they're out showcasing independent games. The call recently went out for independent game submissions for the 2008 festivals. The rules look pretty flexible, with the primary requirement being that no major developer's money has crossed your palm in reference to the submitted game: More »

Make Game, Win Money, Change Health Care

Maggie Greene — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:30:06 EDT

A rather lofty order for a video game, but Changemakers and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are sponsoring a competition and putting up prize money ($15,000 in total) to see who can present a game that will make an impact on health or health care - that doesn't just mean newsgames or the like with varying degrees of interesting content, but even games a la Dance Dance Revolution that (surprise!) turned out to be a novel way to get couch potatoes moving. More »

Assassin's Creed Short Film Contest

Mike Fahey — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:20:03 EDT

Break out your white cloak and your video camera, it's time for another whacky funtime video game related short film contest. This time it's from Ubisoft and IFC, and the subject is Assassin's Creed. In six minutes or less, explore the many mysteries of Assassin's Creed, providing your own interpretation of the mysteries surrounding the title. What is the mysterious white room? Is it time travel? Why would they meddle in the flow of history? Will Jade Raymond make out with me so I can win a $10 bet I have with Plunkett? I'll split it. More »

Get That Xbox 360 Pimped John Now

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:30:42 EST

Oops. I'm a little late on this one. A few weeks ago, we told you about Roto-Rooter's Pimped Out John sweepstakes which features a Kohler Cimarron Complete Solution toilet decked out with all the candies, including a cistern-mounted Xbox 360—sadly, the Core model. Since that eMachines laptop isn't even remotely suited for gaming, I suggest reselling that, then grabbing the hard drive as well as a few games. More »

Announcement: Ashcraft Is... Night Editor!

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:20:09 EST

We have a promotion! In an effort to let our esteemed editor Brian Crecente sleep for four hours a night instead of three, the management have seen fit to grant our man in Japan, contributing Wired editor and sixteen month Kotaku vet Brian Ashcraft the title of Night Editor. More »

RetroBlast! Child's Play Contests

Mike Fahey — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:40:09 EST

RetroBlast! is going all out this month for the Penny Arcade Child's Play Charity, running contests to help promote what is quickly becoming the official charity of gamers everywhere. From what I have seen the contests aim more at raising Child's Play awareness than gathering donations, but they've got that covered quite nicely themselves. More »

SportsCenter Invaded By Xbox 360

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:40:33 EST

Tonight's episode of SportsCenter will feature nothing but delicious advertising from our very own hometown hero, the Xbox 360. Nestled between the wisecracks and coverage of today's sports news will be beloved Microsoft ads, including the fan-fave Gears of War "Mad World" spot as well as the premiere of the Cops & Robbers commercial. More »

Ed Wood Second Life Festival

brownlee2 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:40:59 EDT

Ed Wood and Second Life go together like chocolate and peanut butter. After all, Ed was a director of inspired incompetence; Second Life is an entire virtual world filled with that incompetence. More »

EB Games Gives Out Sweet Custom Guitar Hero Controller

kotaku.com — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:40:09 EDT

Kotakuite Genki wrote us in with this swank image of a custom painted Guitar Hero controller he gave away at the EB he manages: More »

Toys 'R' Us Gives Away 25,000 Wiis

kotaku.com — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:00:35 EDT

Not able to preorder a Wii? Well, here's a fairly substantial chance that you can get one anyway: Toys 'R' Us is planning on giving away 25,000 Wii consoles. All you have to do is find their circulars in your local paper. More »

Kotaku Scout Wins DS Contest, Will Be Blasted into Space

egauger — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:40:37 EDT

Don't say we never did you any favors, monkeyfriends. More »

Be The Ultimate Kratos

kotaku.com — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:00:13 EDT

Think you've got what it's take to have a threeway with two Sapphic floozies? Sony is looking for the ultimate God of War cosplayer: More »

Wii Retailing For $299? Come Again?

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:21:21 EDT

First, the good news. All you chubbies swilling down Slurpees, Big Bites, and Beef Taquitos can work off those extra calories with your Wii wand. Masters of convenience 7-Eleven will be giving away 711 Wiis as part of a promotional contest this holiday season. More »

Eets Caption Contest!

egauger — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:20:40 EDT

In honor of my upcoming review of Eets (forecast is good!), the hungry puzzler from VGSmart Press, I'm going to give a little bump to the Eets caption contest currently running over on indie-game blog, Jay Is Games. More »

The Kotaku Effect, or The Price of a Guinness in Rathmines

brownlee — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:40:11 EDT

Over the weekend, I went down to GAME on Dawson Street. At the counter, I had a small discussion with this man, pictured to the right. Notice that he is wearing a Brain Age t-shirt. More »

Mercenaries Tattoo Contest Won By the Sword

egauger — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:40:49 EDT

...because it was the only entry without a skull. Hot tipper NoBullet reports that the Mercenaries tat contest is done. More »

Watch Her Sing or Watch Her Win, Your Choice

egauger — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:40:50 EDT

Face it, she'd pwn you proper. More »

Kotaku Contest Black DS Lite Grand Prize Secured

brownlee — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:41:06 EDT

The Black DS Lite that we'll be giving away to the grand prize winner of our string of DS Lite Give-Away contests is now in our grubby, greedy little hands, just waiting to be mailed off to some lucky gamer! More »

Mercenaries II's Mattias to get Fan Tattoos

egauger — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:20:56 EDT

Aspiring tattoo artists take note! The character design team over at Pandemic has been snorting Pixy Stix out of each other's navels for the past three days, and they are tired. And if there's one thing I've learned at Kotaku Headquarters in the few weeks I've been here, it's that only through great adversity (and vageuly homoerotic sugar bingeing), are great gaming ideas born. More »

Be The Voice of Jean Grey or Bruce Banner!

brownlee — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:00:57 EDT

Does your nasally falsetto cause glistening, beefy he-men to kick sand in your face and steal your girlfriend, who is actually your elderly mother? Are you a woman? Does your voice sound like a thousand sows belching in unison? More »

FHM's DS Lite Contest for the Slower Witted

brownlee — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:00:23 EDT

A lot of people found the solution to our contest's first week puzzle to be difficult. You can thank Old Man Crecente for that — by trade, a devious cryptologist who imbued into the brain of his son the fiendish machinations of Satan's own Enigma Machine. More »

Retro Remakes Big 2006 Retro Remaking Contest

brownlee — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:40:51 EDT

Retro Remakes is sponsoring a huge honking contest to create the best remake of a classic video game. There's 3692 worth of prizes to be won for "Good remakes of good games that anyone can play, regardless of their ability." More »

World of Warcraft Easter Eggs

brownlee — Mon, 29 May 2006 09:00:29 EDT

Unlike most easter eggs, these World of Warcraft inspired egg creations will not finish their brief ovum existence dramatically hurled at the side of my kid sister's head. Which is just as well, because some WoW players really poured every ounce of cool they've got into these things. More »